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- From: jrm@zeta.ma.adfa.oz.au (John R Marley)
- Subject: Problems with X11 and SR10.4
- Message-ID: <JRM.92Nov11143130@zeta.ma.adfa.oz.au>
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- Organization: Maths Dept., A.D.F.A., Canberra, Australia
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:31:30 GMT
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- Hello!
-
- We're having a couple of problems with X on our Apollos that I can't pin down.
- All our machines are now at SR10.4, we've got diskless 425t's booted off
- 5500's, some older DNxxxx machines and some diskless 425e's on an ethernet.
-
- First, on a couple of the 425t's, the X server seems to lose track of the
- available fonts. Reboot the machine, and everything works fine. Some time
- later, applications start to fail proclaiming that they can't find font such
- and such. 'xlsfonts' lists the font that supposedly can't be found. Reboot
- the machine and everything works again. This has been reported on 425t's
- booted off different 5500's.
-
- The other problem may not be an Apollo problem, but I'll mention it anyway.
- When we run Splus on a 425t, we can hang the system by rapidly
- exposing/covering parts of Splus's X output window. This works using either
- Xapollo or Xdomain. When I say "hang", I mean the cursor and keyboard freeze
- and the flashing LED that indicates cpu activity freezes. Nothing for it but
- to reboot. We can reproduce this on a 425t. We couldn't do it on a 425e, or a
- 5500. It appears to be getting confused trying to refresh a window while
- already refreshing. This may be a bug in Splus, since I couldn't reproduce the
- problem with another package running.
-
- If anyone has any ideas about these or can shed some light, please drop me a
- line.
-
- Thanks!
-
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- Trust in the LORD with all your heart and | John Marley
- lean not on your own understanding; in all -+- j-marley@adfa.edu.au
- your ways acknowledge him, and He will make | Programmer & Sys Admin
- your paths straight. - Proverbs 3:5-6 | A.D.F.A. Maths Dept.
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